Friday, May 15, 2020

Entirely useless keyboard made by inserting floppies uses a Raspberry Pi and a Teensy LC #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

via Raspberry Pi Pod and micro:bit base

He’s hooked up an old floppy drive to a Raspberry Pi which reads the disk insertion events and then looks to see what the volume label is: the volume labels are letters or special keys like SHIFT. These are then sent to a Teensy LC which converts the signals into proper keystrokes which it then sends to a host PC. It’s completely batty, but I love it! Talk about whimsical 🙂 You can see it in action below:

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